The minister's breakfast at the Fairmont was the first of a series of events celebrating Nagin's inauguration. Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was released from federal prison Monday, about three years before he was due to complete his year prison term on corruption charges. Nagin, 63, was the beneficiary of a policy implemented by U.
Attorney General William Barr, who a month ago ordered the Bureau of Prisons to make way for more federal prisoner releases to address coronavirus concerns. Barr asked the bureau to consider the age and vulnerability of the inmate to COVID, conduct in prison and a re-entry plan, with priority given to inmates in low- and medium-security facilities like the camp in Texarkana where Nagin was housed.
Federal defendants awaiting trial in parish jails across the New Orleans area are having little luck convincing judges to send them home based…. Nagin's release was confirmed late Monday by his brother-in-law, Cedric Smith, who managed his unlikely campaign for mayor in Smith said Nagin was with his family in Frisco, Texas, a Dallas suburb where Nagin bought a place after Hurricane Katrina, and where the family settled after he left office in We're really happy he's back home.
Smith said it was his understanding that Nagin would not have to serve time in a halfway house, a typical stop along the way for federal offenders.
Halfway houses, like prisons, have come under fire amid the COVID crisis because they tend to keep inmates in dorm-like settings where the virus can spread. A former executive with Cox Cable, Nagin emerged from obscurity to win the race in a landslide. He was elected to a second term in , a year after Hurricane Katrina, in a hotly contested race where he narrowly bested then-Lt. Mitch Landrieu. Nagin was convicted in on a raft of corruption charges, ranging from wire fraud to bribery and tax evasion.
He always maintained his innocence. But a jury agreed with federal prosecutors' contention that he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and free granite slabs for a family countertop business in exchange for steering city work to the contractors that paid him off.
District Judge Ginger Berrigan gave Nagin a year sentence , which was well below the term of between 15 and 20 years that the federal guidelines called for. But Berrigan said she thought Nagin deserved a more lenient sentence based on several factors, including his age and the remote possibility that he would ever be able to violate the public trust again.
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